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This land is our land
Our global climate is warming due to the unprecedented amounts of carbon dioxide we are emitting through the combustion of fossil fuels. I have seen the impact of this firsthand in the degradation of coral reefs and the retreat of glaciers around the world. This land is our land… Read More
EPA Won’t Finalize Renewable Fuel Standard in 2014, Cites Lengthy Delays
The Environmental Protection Agency announced Nov. 21 that it won’t issue a final renewable fuel standard for 2014 by the end of the year. Instead, the EPA plans to issue a new rule in 2015 to set standards for 2014 through 2016 in an effort to bring the annual rulemaking… Read More
The fight over the Renewable Fuel Standard, explained
Back in 2007, Congress passed a law requiring the US to use more and more biofuels — like corn-based ethanol — each year. This is known as the Renewable Fuel Standard. In recent years, gasoline refiners and biofuels producers have been fighting over how much ethanol US cars can safely… Read More
Stakeholders baffled, angry as Obama admin punts 2014 RFS
Stakeholders baffled, angry as Obama admin punts 2014 RFS -GreenWire 11/21/2014… Read More
Giving thanks to those born to give
From about as long as I can remember, Thanksgiving in my family has really been about food first and foremost. Of course, immediately followed by family. (If not for family, both real and adopted, who would all that food be for anyway?!) Then, not exactly as an afterthought, we would… Read More
The Next Climate Policy Fight Could Be All About Airplane Emissions
Environmental groups are pledging to intensify their push on the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from aircraft in the wake of a new report showing no improvement in fuel efficiency from U.S. domestic airlines. The pledge comes one day after the International Council on Clean Transportation released… Read More
McDonalds, Beef Industry Slammed for Greenwashing
McDonald’s and the rest of the Global Roundtable on Sustainable Beef are “greenwashing” beef production with their principles and criteria for global sustainable beef, according to consumer, worker and environmental groups. In a letter to the Roundtable’s Executive Committee, 23 groups — including Friends of the Earth, Animal Welfare Approved,… Read More
The environmental movement is not the Tea Party of the left
Perhaps it was inevitable, in the current Tea Party era, that a noisy progressive movement would draw comparisons to the right-wing insurgents who have taken over the Republican Party. And so — with climate change in the headlines, thanks to historic pledges from President Obama and Congress voting on Keystone… Read More
Terrible truth about Keystone, free Wi-Fi for all & record kids without homes
Erich Pica and Ben Schrieber from Friends of the Earth discuss the Senate’s vote on the Keystone XL oil pipeline and what the ramifications of building this pipeline will be for the environment. Terrible truth about Keystone, free Wi-Fi for all & record kids without homes -RT TV Breaking… Read More
Would the Keystone Pipeline Speed up Global Warming?
To supporters,the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada to the United States is a crucial component of the nation’s energy future, one that would help free Americans from dependence upon Middle East oil. To detractors, it’s an environmental nightmare that would contribute excessively to greenhouse gas emissions and climate change. Read More